Windows created new user profile

Viewed 4k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. It's not a temporary profile or at least doesn't seem like it. I am still logging on to the same account with the same password. It's just that the files are missing every time I restart the computer. So after researching this more, it seems like for whatever reason my user account has been corrupted. The only choice I think I have is to create a second user account.

Windows tries to detect the corruption ahead before granting access, but if the corruption happens on a later stage, it will not give all those startup warnings but the end result is the same, with a locked profile. As I suggested before, backup everything from the current profile, deactivate any personal licenses then create a new one.

Follow these steps to install it:. Click Local Users and Groups , and then click Add. Click Local computer , click Finish , and then click OK. Type the appropriate information in the dialog box, and then click Create. Click Manage another account. Type the name you want to give the user account, click an account type, and then click Create Account. Windows 8. Create a Microsoft account Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings , and then tap Change PC settings.

Tap or click Accounts, and then tap or click Other accounts. Tap or click Add an account. Enter the account info for this person to sign in to Windows. There are four ways to do this: If the person you're adding already has a Microsoft account, enter it now. Follow the instructions to finish setting up the account. Create a local account Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings , and then tap Change PC settings. We somehow sometimes end up with users with 3 or 4 profiles on a machine.

You can try logging in as a different user and then modifying the registry to point it at your original profile. Personally, I dislike the extraneous profiles on my PC and I'll log in as the local Administrator and remove the profile folder s not in use and then rename the new folder so that it doesn't have the.

I've not tried pointing it to a previous folder, but I might have to try that next time to save myself the trouble of setting up everything again.

Thanks for the post, but I'm kinda weird about Windows screwing up. When it does something big like this, I just wipe it and start over. I'm re-installing stuff now. This will take me all weekend to get done Look at what did next Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions.

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